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[00:00:07] and a new news report on France
[00:00:07] carry the word 24, welcome to you if you are
[00:00:10] joining us, our
[00:00:12] and the Pope has now editions largely dedicated to this visit of Leo
[00:00:15] 14 in France, and he is preparing to leave Paris
[00:00:19] for Lourdes, the sovereign pontiff presided over a solemn mass this afternoon in the Place de
[00:00:23] la Concorde here in the capital, at least 700,000 people
[00:00:26] participated according to the Vatican, you will hear an... excerpt from his homily.
[00:00:45] 700,000 people, according to the
[00:00:48] kind of standard-bearer for Vatican, were gathered on this Avenue des Champs-Élysées in
[00:00:51] Paris and far beyond for the mass presided over by Pope
[00:00:54] 14, it was the moment to conclude his two-day
[00:00:58] stopover in Paris before going to Lourdes, I propose
[00:01:01] you listen to an excerpt from his homily:
[00:01:06] unravel the mysteries of one of the jewels of I thank God for the grace that he offers me to be
[00:01:10] here on this Place de la Concorde
[00:01:13] to celebrate the Eucharist,
[00:01:16] yes, it is good and sweet for brothers and sisters
[00:01:20] to gather together to
[00:01:23] magnify the greatness of
[00:01:25] God, may my presence among
[00:01:29] you
[00:01:32] confirm your faith and encourage
[00:01:35] you to constantly radiate
[00:01:38] and transmit life, peace and
[00:01:43] he slept in this room and there in the context of love of our beloved Jesus Christ,
[00:01:45] and then Marie Chuster who followed this whole event from
[00:01:49] the Place des Champs-Élysées, the Avenue des
[00:01:52] Champs-Élysées, Marie, the Mass has
[00:01:55] heritage projects in Europe, here we are in the middle of been over for about thirty minutes now, but people are clearly
[00:01:58] not rushing to leave this... the area around you
[00:02:00] yeah
[00:02:05] indeed, that's the feeling we have here so we were expecting 60,000
[00:02:08] people according to the Vatican, you said they were almost 700,000, in any case the
[00:02:12] Champs-Élysées were packed with people to come and attend this mass
[00:02:16] to perhaps catch a glimpse of the Pope
[00:02:19] during his passage in his Popemobile, uh
[00:02:23] indeed they are not rushing to leave, so they were given just before the
[00:02:27] mass this little booklet, this mass booklet which allowed them to follow
[00:02:31] the songs and sing along, we felt a
[00:02:34] strong fervor here, first at the passage of the Popemobile, shouts of joy,
[00:02:38] applause also at the end of the mass where we felt people
[00:02:42] were very moved, the Pope himself whom we saw on the big screens uh was
[00:02:46] very moved, looked very moved and then
[00:02:49] we also saw seminarians, priests who
[00:02:53] were present to distribute the Eucharist
[00:02:56] to allow people to
[00:02:58] discover it, you see, I'm going to talk about receive communion during this place for the life of mass, and also
[00:03:01] many young people who were also present at the Stade de
[00:03:04] France the night before and who were very touched by the
[00:03:08] Pope's message, the youth
[00:03:10] solidified on contact with which is a theme that will come up again during these 4 days of
[00:03:13] apostolic journey, tomorrow in Lourdes and then in
[00:03:16] Metz, thank you very much Marie, Marie live from this
[00:03:19] Avenue des Champs-Élysées which is not emptying, that's what you just
[00:03:23] told us, Anne Corpe who is a little
[00:03:26] higher up, Anne the mass is over, we were just
[00:03:30] saying it with Marie Schuster, what we will essentially remember are
[00:03:34] these moments of jubilation and contemplation that you witnessed,
[00:03:37] even from a height, you had a general view of that
[00:03:40] area,
[00:03:43] yes, yes, and here towards the Place de l'Étoile, well
[00:03:47] the crowd has already deserted the sidewalks, it's the
[00:03:50] law enforcement who are moving back the security
[00:03:54] barriers, a great moment of popular
[00:03:57] jubilation, first with the appearance... uh from the
[00:04:01] first hours of the morning of the crowd singing and
[00:04:05] religious framework because he is here and especially culminating with the passage of the Popemobile
[00:04:09] acclaimed with a crowd waving its
[00:04:13] flags in all directions, then
[00:04:16] contemplation took place with this mass, a
[00:04:19] crowd that here followed it on
[00:04:22] giant screens and that followed it
[00:04:26] sitting on the sidewalks standing everywhere.
[00:04:30] With a message, as Marie said, addressed first and foremost to the
[00:04:33] youth, "You are the church of today," launched
[00:04:37] Leo 14 to these young people, and a message also addressed
[00:04:41] to new converts, it's a phenomenon
[00:04:43] that particularly interests the Vatican,
[00:04:47] 21,000 adult and
[00:04:50] adolescent baptisms pronounced this year in France, even
[00:04:53] though babies are much less
[00:04:56] baptized than before, a church that has...
[00:05:00] there it is still under the authority of transformed, that has gone from a Catholicism of transmission to
[00:05:03] a Catholicism
[00:05:07] of adherence, and the Pope called these new converts
[00:05:11] to share their journey, to
[00:05:14] communicate their path, to
[00:05:19] of the Gospel,
[00:05:25] left the Place de la Concorde, he will go
[00:05:28] to Lourdes, you said, where he will meet victims
[00:05:32] of sexual abuse committed by the church, there have been
[00:05:35] 33,000 since 1951,
[00:05:39] seven of them will be heard by the
[00:05:43] Pope, a choice by the church that has sparked some controversy
[00:05:47] among associations defending these victims who would have liked
[00:05:49] to be received in a more collective
[00:05:52] manner, he will then go to Metz to deliver a
[00:05:55] European
[00:05:58] message. Thank you very much Anne, Anne Corpe live from the Champs Élysées, the
[00:06:02] sovereign pontiff who is preparing to leave
[00:06:05] Paris for Lourdes, Natalia Mendoza who is also part of
[00:06:09] this papal delegation is on the tarmac of Orly
[00:06:12] airport, thank you for being with us Natalia, you are waiting for the arrival of the
[00:06:16] sovereign pontiff to take off not very long
[00:06:19] from now, heading to
[00:06:20] Lourdes,
[00:06:24] the connection with Natalia will be re-established in a
[00:06:27] moment, complicated with these networks, there are also many people
[00:06:31] all around, Constance, before looking ahead to Lourdes,
[00:06:34] the next stage of this apostolic journey of the sovereign pontiff, what more general
[00:06:38] assessment can we already draw from these two days spent in Paris, so
[00:06:42] successful? very rich nonetheless, if we rewind,
[00:06:45] what did we see? we better understood, better knew this
[00:06:49] sovereign pontiff, American nevertheless, it's a great novelty in
[00:06:53] the Church, who speaks French, and who speaks much
[00:06:56] better than uh the speeches he gave in
[00:06:59] Monaco, notably, that was early April, where we were saying,
[00:07:03] "Ah, so that's his French," so he really made an effort, he is
[00:07:07] expected because he has roots, oh yes, French roots, I mean, he must
[00:07:10] have known his
[00:07:14] grandmother who died in 1979, named
[00:07:18] Suzanne Fontaine, uh so there you go, no, no, he's very, very close and
[00:07:21] through his mother too, so he really has
[00:07:24] origins, there you go, we know him better, we saw a
[00:07:27] man, a Pope who spoke very
[00:07:31] firmly politically to the republic, who told him
[00:07:35] pleasant and unpleasant things, he
[00:07:37] flattered France, flattered
[00:07:41] Emmanuel Macron, flattered French culture, French
[00:07:44] excellence, the beautiful speech of President Macron at the Collège des
[00:07:48] Bernadins, that was in 2018 where he
[00:07:51] promised to go and repair the damaged link between
[00:07:54] the church and France, he finally did it, after all, since there was the
[00:07:57] visit of a Pope during his last
[00:08:01] five-year term, and at the same time, a firm
[00:08:05] discourse also on a commemorative message on the
[00:08:08] revolution all the same, he celebrated the martyrdom
[00:08:12] of 200 priests, roughly assassinated
[00:08:16] during the September 1792
[00:08:19] massacres, no Pope had dared to make such
[00:08:22] audacious gestures in places like that, so he
[00:08:26] went, there you go, he walked straight on his
[00:08:29] path, we feel it, we see it, he's a determined
[00:08:32] Pope who, despite his gentle demeanor,
[00:08:35] quiet, less disruptive than Pope
[00:08:38] Francis, charts his own course and
[00:08:42] his stops in Paris have further
[00:08:45] affirmed, I think, his very clear message
[00:08:49] uh there you go, and he also has this rather joyful
[00:08:52] personality, this man who smiles a lot, this man who lets himself be carried by
[00:08:56] emotion, we saw him clearly wipe away a
[00:08:58] tear uh yesterday at the Stade de
[00:09:02] France in front of these young people, he was very good there, he took the
[00:09:05] babies, so there you go, I think it's uh a beautiful
[00:09:09] encounter between this American Pope uh
[00:09:13] and the French. Mission accomplished if we stay within the purely
[00:09:18] both as head of the Catholic Church and head of state of the Vatican, on the religious level, yes, and
[00:09:22] by the way, he is precisely moving from one role to the other, as far as
[00:09:25] simply, we were talking about it earlier, and we were talking rather, sorry,
[00:09:29] about a form of reconquest of the Catholic Church in France, is it on this
[00:09:32] point that it is a successful mission when we see these 70,000
[00:09:36] people who, we assume, do not necessarily participate in religious services
[00:09:40] in. any case, of course, the
[00:09:44] atmosphere, the crowds, the tickets
[00:09:48] that sold out in 2 hours for the Stade de France, that's still
[00:09:51] 80,000 seats, it would have taken two Stade de France, maybe even three, who
[00:09:54] knows, so yes, it's a success uh, it's a
[00:09:58] way for the church to reassert itself in the public
[00:10:02] sphere, without threatening secularism, but uh, as
[00:10:06] long as there is no disorder to public
[00:10:09] order, there is no problem,
[00:10:13] the state that these demonstrations took place, so
[00:10:16] there you go, yes of course, the church is there, the Catholics are there, uh, they
[00:10:20] show themselves, they enjoy themselves because they
[00:10:23] strengthen themselves by showing themselves, so yes, on that point it's
[00:10:26] a success I think, he is expected in Lourdes, so after this
[00:10:30] Parisian stopover, he flies to this Catholic
[00:10:34] pilgrimage center, he is the first sovereign pontiff to set foot on the soil of this Marian city
[00:10:38] since Benedict, since Benedict, to take a
[00:10:41] reference point, well now, and we will see exactly what we expect from this
[00:10:45] visit to Lourdes and we'll talk again right
[00:10:47] after,
[00:10:51] pilgrims are already converging on Lourdes by the thousands from all over the
[00:10:55] world, they are raising the fervor in the city, decorated in the
[00:10:59] colors of the Vatican,
[00:11:01] he has no words, he has no words, even if he's not here yet, even if he's not here
[00:11:05] yet, we see everything that's being prepared, I can't wait to
[00:11:08] see him for the first time, first time I see generally and so
[00:11:12] it's always a great moment, it's a beautiful
[00:11:15] day, our pilgrimage, the Pope and
[00:11:18] who knows, the appearance of the Virgin if we are
[00:11:20] lucky,
[00:11:23] the city is barricaded for the
[00:11:56] event, including in the air,
[00:11:59] thanks to their fixed or mobile drones, these police officers will be able to visualize
[00:12:03] each movement live, we're going to
[00:12:05] check everything to make sure the Pope arrives safely, to secure his arrival
[00:12:09] when he circulates in his Popemobile
[00:12:12] and especially to check
[00:12:14] that there is no crowd movement on the ground,
[00:12:18] the big mass on Sunday morning is being prepared, this deacon will have the privilege of being closest to Leo
[00:12:22] 14, to prepare the altar near the Pope. right next to him
[00:12:26] and a priori right next to him so I'm waiting to know
[00:12:29] what I'm going to be asked to do, I just hope I don't make any mistakes and that I don't
[00:12:32] spill a chalice or
[00:12:35] a cup. The Pope is expected this evening shortly before 8 p.m. at the
[00:12:39] Grotto of Apparitions where he will give his blessing, a first
[00:12:42] stage that should already gather 50,000
[00:12:45] people. There's a lot of anticipation in Lourdes, so much could
[00:12:49] still happen, Constance? Yes, of course,
[00:12:52] because this is really a moment of pastoral
[00:12:56] encounter, this is the life of the Church, there's no more political discourse, apart
[00:13:00] of course from a sensitive topic, which is that of abuse, the
[00:13:03] crisis, the scandal of pedophilia and abuse of minors in
[00:13:06] the Church, apart from that, everything else is no longer about politics, no longer
[00:13:10] about the Élysée, no longer about protocol, we are really in religious
[00:13:13] life, in the sick, in miracles, in
[00:13:17] the apparitions of the Virgin, in the Marian sanctuary which is
[00:13:20] an international
[00:13:23] the Church, and besides... all the Popes, except Francis, have
[00:13:27] been to Lourdes, everyone has gone to Lourdes, even before being
[00:13:31] Pope, no doubt he went as a seminarian,
[00:13:34] priest, missionary, etc., I don't know, I'm
[00:13:38] getting ahead of myself, but it's really a place of encounter, a
[00:13:41] crossroads of faith, uh, the Marian sanctuaries, so
[00:13:44] he's going to awaken that fervor, there's no reason
[00:13:48] why there shouldn't be crowds again, uh, there you go, even
[00:13:51] if the geographical setting is much more constrained.
[00:13:55] So, here we are at the foot of the grotto, in this space
[00:13:59] where, well, there can't be more than 150,000 people, I think I've seen
[00:14:02] yellow and do we know precisely why
[00:14:05] it's in Lourdes, this sanctuary city, this pilgrimage center,
[00:14:09] that this meeting with these victims of sexual abuse will
[00:14:12] take place, because I would also like to make sense of what we were saying, we were talking about success
[00:14:16] here in Paris, but for these victims' collectives, it will remain a
[00:14:19] feeling of a missed
[00:14:23] opportunity, in fact, on that side. There are always problems because, obviously,
[00:14:27] the victims cannot be satisfied with all
[00:14:30] the efforts that the Catholic Church could make, even if they are insufficient.
[00:14:34] When one is a victim, when one's life has been, uh,
[00:14:38] there is never any possibility of being satisfied with
[00:14:42] what a Pope, the Vatican, does, how do we choose these
[00:14:45] people? The collectives, yes, it's a shame that they are
[00:14:48] not present because they are stronger to speak, more
[00:14:51] militant, exactly, perhaps that's what the Church wanted to avoid
[00:14:55] by receiving only individuals. Well, uh, why
[00:14:58] is it also happening there? Because we are close to
[00:15:01] Bétharram too, uh, he will have a victim from
[00:15:04] Bétharram of whom we know uh that she will
[00:15:07] ask for the suspension of the Congregation of the Fathers of
[00:15:10] Bétharram, so there you go, it's not at all certain that it will be
[00:15:14] uh accepted, but in any case uh this
[00:15:17] victim, her word is firm
[00:15:20] on that, she wants to go that far, but if it had not
[00:15:23] been uh organized in Lourdes, he
[00:15:27] would have still necessarily had a meeting
[00:15:30] with victims in Paris or in Metz, there you go, because that
[00:15:34] now, unfortunately, I would say for the Church, it's... an
[00:15:37] obligation, it's an obligation, thank you very much
[00:15:40] Constance, thank you, we'll see you in about fifteen minutes for a new news report, see you later,
[00:15:59] and stay with us, next up on France 24, your show "Pas de quartier" with
[00:16:03] Ségolène Malterre and her
[00:16:21] social media a friend named the conqueror who revolutionized the image
[00:16:24] of French castles to a whole new audience, hello friends,
[00:16:28] welcome to the Château de Chantilly, we owe this castle in particular to one
[00:16:32] man, Henry d'Orléans, how did this Franco-Moroccan become
[00:16:36] one of the most celebrated faces of heritage in France, from the
[00:16:39] Loire castles to his childhood neighborhood, follow me, I'll introduce you to the
[00:16:43] enthusiast behind
[00:16:44] the armor,
[00:16:48] and to start, my friend gave us an appointment in the Loire Valley at the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, he
[00:16:52] must be somewhere filming his next video, we're going to try to
[00:16:55] find him,
[00:16:58] ah, it's cold here, the goal is to enlighten us, you're going to follow us
[00:17:01] behind and we're going to stop in front of the
[00:17:03] bed, yeah, we're going to make an entrance,
[00:17:08] Ah, the king's bedroom, apparently Louis XII, at the age of 18, on
[00:17:11] June 27, 1619, came here,
[00:17:15] he spent a few nights here, that's right, yes, he spent 3 days here at the Château d'Azay and
[00:17:21] the exhibition we had fun putting a deer on it, this deer is the
[00:17:24] king of the forest, top very good, hop, you see how it is, we are
[00:17:28] quick, tac tac, as always it seems easy when you watch videos on social
[00:17:32] media but it's a lot of work and a lot of staging,
[00:17:35] in fact, it's go, it's that the hazards, we forget to block people, it's
[00:17:39] complicated when we, yeah, the hazards, give access, privileged access,
[00:17:43] let's go, we're going, I'm home now, I've gained confidence, you see, look here
[00:17:47] you have the salamander, it's the emblem of Francis I, the owner of the
[00:17:50] castle worked for Francis I, but he had a bit of a falling out with Francis I at the
[00:17:54] end, yes, because he stole from the treasury, the
[00:17:57] carrot, that's right, exactly, you
[00:18:01] know, and yes, at the beginning you pushed a bit to be able to
[00:18:04] film, but now they welcome you well, yeah, I shouldn't say it but phew, before it was
[00:18:08] hell, it was a nightmare, now welcome your
[00:18:12] Highness, Amine, it's that hard work pays off, actually, yeah, I
[00:18:15] sleep in front of the Château de Blois, I open my window, there's the Château de Blois in front of me, not yet in the castle,
[00:18:19] no, not yet, I'm a street away from the castle, it makes my heart feel something, I
[00:18:23] don't know why castles make me so happy, you see, I love them so much, how do you
[00:18:27] define this method to reach beyond the usual audience, I don't overthink it, I do
[00:18:31] it naturally, I discover the castle like a small child would
[00:18:36] hygiene of... and people are not used to us talking about it
[00:18:39] necessarily, so it makes them laugh, me in all modesty, of course,
[00:18:43] I know much more, of course, but I'm not going to annoy people
[00:18:47] with terms to impress, the most important thing is to transmit, so that when you watch my
[00:18:51] video you say, "Ah, I learned something," you see, well, this drone is taking off, yes
[00:18:55] well, yes, girls, where's my drone, where's my drone? A year and
[00:18:59] a half after his first amateur video, it's now the
[00:19:02] heritage administrators who contact him, stand there
[00:19:06] try to aim at my face, work for Amine the Conqueror, I
[00:19:09] swear, a professional cameraman, Amin Cassid became passionate
[00:19:13] about medieval history after a role as an extra in a historical
[00:19:16] TV series,
[00:19:19] I'll let you tell me, what do you want me to tell you, it's the text, tell me if it's good or
[00:19:22] not, the king's financier received it from his father,
[00:19:26] well, I'm going to tell you something, I had a doubt and I was waiting to see you, oh yeah, but otherwise everything is
[00:19:30] impeccable, 19 out of 20, no 19 is not me, I'm just saying, you know, it's like when you
[00:19:34] copied someone and you messed up, all the greatest historians of France... follow
[00:19:37] me and that's the pressure I have, in fact, I tell myself that the slightest mistake and I'm
[00:19:41] dead, friends, today I'm taking you with me to discover
[00:19:45] a Loire castle for a day and that for a week, a
[00:19:48] marathon for him and his team Ocean and
[00:19:51] Mounira knew Amine the video trainer before he
[00:19:54] became the conqueror, the first training he launched was the city of
[00:19:58] ladies, so it was only with women, that's why in his team he only has ladies now, it's true, we are
[00:20:02] his bodyguards, as he says, no, well
[00:20:04] yes, and who says bodyguard says notoriety? And Amine is now
[00:20:08] a known face wherever he goes, oh, I'm annoyed in the
[00:20:11] photo, annoyed, well yes, I knew her right away, I saw her face, I said, "Ah, it's him," and I
[00:20:15] turned to Camille, I said, "But it's him," she said, "Oh yes, it's
[00:20:18] true," at first it was a joke, I posted it on social media like that, you know, and
[00:20:22] it worked, so I continued, you become an ambassador of French heritage, I'm focused on
[00:20:26] the content, I'm like, what's the project? Well, we're going to bring all French
[00:20:30] people together around the love of heritage, around the love of
[00:20:33] France and make us say, "Damn, we're happy and proud to be
[00:20:36] French," you know what I mean, we're French, you know, we were born here, we're French, that's it,
[00:20:40] so we're going to do everything to show other countries in Europe, in the world, the heritage we
[00:20:44] have, look guys, that's France, and we're not joking with you, you see, that's how I
[00:20:48] think, return to his homeland, Amine grew up far from
[00:20:52] old stones in the new town of Cergy, but his passion very quickly
[00:20:55] disturbed and the law of networks did the rest. If he no longer counts the
[00:20:59] messages of racist and Islamophobic insults, he now files
[00:21:02] complaints for death threats. Look, I'm going to file
[00:21:06] a complaint against this guy, he invents
[00:21:09] accents for me, "peasant accent, go home, go back to
[00:21:12] your country," does that not affect you today? There are times when I tell myself, "Yeah, what
[00:21:15] am I doing here?" especially when they attack parents, you see, and
[00:21:19] that's where it's... insidious is that they provoke you, they wait for you to make
[00:21:22] a mistake, I'll give you an example, there's a guy who insulted me, who insulted my parents, I
[00:21:26] made a mistake, which was to answer him by insulting him too,
[00:21:29] screenshot, he pretends to be a woman, he says, "There, he insults women," I say, "Oh
[00:21:33] yeah, guys, you're crazy," did you imagine becoming, by addressing all these questions, a
[00:21:38] anti-racism? I wasn't even aware of that at
[00:21:41] first, the positive thing is that now, even if someone attacks
[00:21:45] me, I'll have an army of followers who will
[00:21:48] defend me,
[00:21:53] Today, Amine has decided to go and
[00:21:56] Gothic architecture, a resting place for the kings and queens of France,
[00:22:00] the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Public meetings with his subscribers have
[00:22:04] been put on hold for security reasons, the thing is,
[00:22:08] the storytelling machine doesn't stop for all that, it's known for pushing through
[00:22:11] every time, you know, it didn't work, tried
[00:22:15] 20 times, let's go for the ascent, the
[00:22:19] tower. its gold and its spire were dismantled in 1846,
[00:22:23] weakened by bad weather, is there much left or not? It's
[00:22:26] regaining its shape stone by stone since 2025 to reach
[00:22:30] 120m high, look folks what I do for you,
[00:22:34] look at the risks I take to give you beautiful images, watch carefully, there's a
[00:22:37] reconstruction of this tower which should be completed by 2030,
[00:22:41] exactly, a reconstruction that is one of the largest
[00:22:45] the scaffolding which is already a technical feat, it sticks to the basilica and after a
[00:22:49] while, well, it's... self-supporting, we are living a historical moment, in several centuries, we will
[00:22:53] still talk about it and we were, what are we going to start with,
[00:22:56] Serge, well I suggest we start with the crypt, it's the origin of everything, it's where
[00:23:00] Saint-Denis was buried, you're good Serge, you impress me, one of the
[00:23:03] objectives I have always pursued is to make sure that the local
[00:23:07] public can come, about 23%
[00:23:10] of the Seine-Saint-Denis population visits the monument, but we have been working with
[00:23:14] young people from the area for a very long time, and beyond history, what works here
[00:23:17] is simply beauty when you enter,
[00:23:20] light, it works for everyone, regardless of our beliefs, our
[00:23:23] knowledge, etc., it works, all the characters are turned towards the east, towards the
[00:23:27] sunrise, it's like us Muslims, when we are buried, we are buried in
[00:23:31] the direction of Mecca, it's the same, it's the same thing, how was your curiosity for
[00:23:35] these places perceived in your own religious community? At first, when I filmed the
[00:23:38] castles, there was always one or two jerks who would tell me, "Yeah, Amine, you're filming the castles
[00:23:42] of the infidels, go film in your country." Now,
[00:23:46] on the contrary, when I filmed the collegiate church of Mont la Jolie, people like
[00:23:50] veiled Muslim women and bearded men would tell me, "Wow, it's magnificent, I didn't know we could
[00:23:54] visit it." And so that opened doors for them to encounter
[00:23:58] perhaps the faith of other people or places of faith, did it enlighten you on your own
[00:24:01] faith? Jesus is also a prophet for us Muslims, and
[00:24:05] the Christians, the Jews are mentioned in the Quran,
[00:24:08] and all of that is actually connected, it goes hand in hand
[00:24:12] and it's also a bit of our history, we
[00:24:16] Muslims, which can be manipulated, because we know that here Charles Martel was enumerated.
[00:24:20] I told you, I get a lot of attacks from people on social networks who keep bringing up the name of Charles
[00:24:23] Martel, the pseudo Templars, and they
[00:24:27] don't even know the history of Charles Martel, you see, for example, there's no
[00:24:30] certification that the battle really took place in 732 and in Poitiers, you see,
[00:24:34] historians are not unanimous when we say, "There, we drove the Arabs out of France who
[00:24:38] wanted to invade France." It's not true, the
[00:24:40] Muslims, they would steal everything and leave, they would
[00:24:43] go home. When we understand and are interested in the history of France, we understand a lot
[00:24:47] of things, why there are trees, damn it.
[00:24:50] the road, why we pay such a tax, that's why it's very important to know the
[00:24:54] past to better understand the present and anticipate the future. Are we less
[00:24:57] manipulated too? I know too
[00:25:16] It's nicknamed the emerald of the Caribbean.
[00:25:20] Montserrat, an island of raw beauty,
[00:25:23] carved by the power of a volcano, polished by
[00:25:27] time,
[00:25:29] man is only welcome at the whim of the Soufrière, of its
[00:25:33] eruptions. To venture into this
[00:25:35] land, one must be careful.
[00:25:39] Know that five people are about to enter the zone and especially
[00:25:43] be accompanied by a guide. We have just
[00:25:46] entered a part of zone V, the most dangerous part of the
[00:25:51] island. There's an emergency road in case you need
[00:25:53] to escape.
[00:25:55] As you drive, each car kicks up clouds of ash, the
[00:25:59] ash, ejected by the volcano in its fury, a volcano always
[00:26:02] very active. You don't want to be there on a day when the mountain is in a bad
[00:26:06] mood. A mountain with multiple facets
[00:26:10] that these New York tourists
[00:26:12] are discovering for the first time. I feel so
[00:26:15] small, it's so big, it's
[00:26:19] so massive, and you see these kind of big
[00:26:22] very very deep crevices, in this flow, there's
[00:26:26] up to 60 meters of volcanic material, you want to call it
[00:26:29] the monster, a monster? that woke up
[00:26:33] 31 years ago with
[00:26:36] repeated explosions of smoke and incandescent
[00:26:40] rocks, an avalanche of fire that swept away
[00:26:43] everything, including the capital,
[00:26:47] which is now a ghost town, almost
[00:26:50] entirely
[00:26:54] under the ashes. The
[00:26:57] memorial, for example, there's no trace left, it's buried here under
[00:27:01] our feet. Only the third or fourth floor of the buildings
[00:27:04] are still visible, here, a phone store or
[00:27:08] even the bank's library, only the roof is still
[00:27:12] visible, this hotel welcomed in the 90s
[00:27:15] many tourists and businessmen, and here it
[00:27:19] is
[00:27:20] today,
[00:27:23] trees even grow on the roof, in the ashes, it's
[00:27:26] impressive, a window into life
[00:27:29] before, an office with abandoned documents... very
[00:27:32] quickly, you'd think you were in an alien movie, the emergency
[00:27:36] evacuation, Alvin Ryan experienced it, he was working in this
[00:27:39] supermarket on July 18, 95 when suddenly,
[00:27:43] I started to hear a noise that sounded like an airplane engine, but it
[00:27:46] continued, I realized that in fact the earth had opened up, white
[00:27:50] steam was coming out of a crater, I rushed to
[00:27:53] retrieve a few belongings, I didn't realize then that I was leaving
[00:27:57] here forever.
[00:28:00] 19 people died, some... could not be evacuated in
[00:28:03] time, others refused to leave. Faced with the
[00:28:07] incessant threat, 2/3 of the inhabitants left the island, those who
[00:28:10] remained moved further north,
[00:28:14] but the echoes of the past glory of this British territory still resonate here,
[00:28:18] prized at the time by the greatest musicians, Dire
[00:28:22] Straits, Paul McCartney, Elton
[00:28:25] John. They recorded some of their biggest hits
[00:28:29] in George Martin's studio, the Beatles' producer.
[00:29:05] Here too, the volcano makes its
[00:29:07] law, the incandescent rocks have
[00:29:12] water, creating picturesque
[00:29:15] reefs,
[00:29:19] these volcanic rocks are the perfect habitat for corals and sponges, then fish
[00:29:23] can reproduce and hide there, many reefs that don't
[00:29:26] have many visitors, it's a blessing,
[00:29:30] yes, in Montserrat, there's more marine life than
[00:29:33] tourists and rays can hide in the
[00:29:37] sand without risking being disturbed.
[00:30:32] Thank you for choosing France 24 to inform you about the world, Pope
[00:30:36] Benedict XVI is therefore preparing to leave Paris, he is due to
[00:30:40] fly to Lourdes, the Supreme Pontiff presided over a solemn mass
[00:30:43] this afternoon, Place de la Concorde here in the capital, at least
[00:30:47] 70,000 people took part according to the figures communicated by the
[00:30:51] Vatican.